"The PlayStation Network was taken offline on April 20th, meaning it will have offline for approximately 43 days."
I guess the ~77 million people who've been using it for the last few weeks werent connecting via the PSN network then, so telepathy perhaps?

Seriously, why report on something if you're not going to check what your reporting is accurate? The only thing which has been missing has been the store and the ability to redeem vouchers which should have been created during the downtime. I've activated 2 codes created *before* the downtime, as they can still be claimed, though if it involves downloading something you're still stuck, but online access codes will work just fine. You can even do it via web browser. I suspect anything created up until the intrusion is basically being queued and a nice big backlog of codes should be sitting there.